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Seismic deployment in Southern Patagonia: Tales from the Fall 2018 field season
Joint Chemistry-EPS Colloquium: Brian Phillips
Professor Brian Phillips from Stony Brook University
EPS Colloquium: Kaustubh Thirumalai
An El Niño mode in the Indian Ocean?
EPS Colloquium: Jeff Berger
University of Guelph
EPS Colloquium: Sasha Turchyn
University of Cambridge
Brown Bag: Jonathan Katz
Ultima Thule (486958; 2014 MU69): Necklace, Composition, Rotation, Formation
Brown Bag: Lionel Vacher
Meteorite constraints on the origin and evolution of water in asteroids
EPS Colloquium: Michelle Thompson
Purdue University
Brown Bag: Jill Pasteris
Keeping the Lead out of Drinking Water: Minerals to the Rescue
Public Lecture: " Finding the Good News on Energy and Environment" Professor Richard Alley of Penn State University
McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series
Colloquium "Falling Dominoes: Ice Sheets and Sea Level" Professor Richard Alley of Penn State University
McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series
Impact of Equation of State on Dynamics of Terrestrial Exo-Solar Planets
David Yuen, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University
Brown Bag: David A. Yuen
Big Data in Geosciences: About time to get into Machine Learning and Deep Learning
EPS Colloquium: Magdalena Osburn
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
Brown Bag: EPS Library Update
EPS Colloquium: Glenn Gaetani
Associate Scientist w/Tenure Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Energy: how do we get what we need?
Prof. Mark Alford, Dept. of Physics, Washington University
EPS Colloquium: Alexis Templeton
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
Brown Bag: Robert Criss
Historical and Improved Analysis of Earth's Shape, Rotation Rate and Gravity Field and the Implications for Core Superrotation
EPS Colloquium: Bill McKinnon
Brown Bag: Andrew Lloyd
POLENET 3 - Tales from the Field and Science from its Predecessors
EPS Colloquium: Heather Savage
Associate Professor, Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Brown Bag: Lillian Soto-Cordero, Saint Louis University
Slip Behavior and Structural Control on Megathrust Rupture: Insights from the 2016 Mw 7.8 Pedernales, Ecuador Earthquake Sequence
Senior Thesis Presentations
Department Awards Ceremony And Reception for Undergraduate Students
Graduation Party
Celebrate the achievements of Spring 2019 Earth & Planetary Science graduates!
Brown Bag: Chhavi Jain
Chhavi Jain, a graduate student from Yale University, will deliver a special brown-bag talk on “Improving our understanding of olivine rheology by synergizing rock mechanics, seismology, and geodynamics.”
St. Louis Women in Geospatial Technology Summit
Astronomy on Tap
Dr. Christopher Dabney Heffner, NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador and Dr. Mike Krawczynski, Washington University in St. Louis
Apollo 50th Anniversary Moon Landing Party
Free event hosted by the Saint Louis Science Center
Dissertation Defense: Timothy Hahn Jr.
Applications of Big Data Analytics in Planetary Science: Novel Methods for Investigation and Classification of Planetary Materials
Solar system elemental abundances: Anniversaries and advances
Katharina Lodders, Washington University in St. Louis
Brown Bag: Field Geology Trip to Patagonia
Images and interpretations from the spring 2019 undergraduate field geology trip to Patagonia
EPS Majors Meeting
Plus, a bonus seminar on how to apply to graduate school!
How volcano eruptions, climate change, and the deadliest historic pandemics are all connected
Michael Wysession, professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Turning fiber optic cables into next-generation seismic networks
Zhongwen Zhan, California Institute of Technology
8th Annual Midwest Geobiology Symposium
Did Valley Networks on Mars Form under Ancient Ice Caps?
Anna Grau-Galofre, Arizona State University
Brown Bag: Lunar Analogs in the High Lava Plains of Oregon
Anna Schonwald, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences
Global Full-Waveform Inversion: Exploring the Earth from Crust to Core Based on 3D Numerical Simulations
Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines
A Precious Metal Perspective on Crust to Core Interaction in Intraplate Magmas
James Day, University of California, San Diego
Brown Bag: Rounding and Comminution Rates of Ice Clasts Using the Titan Tumbler
Patrick Matulka, graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences
OSIRIS-REx: Sample Science and the Geology of Active Asteroid Bennu
Harold Connolly, Rowan University
Brown Bag: Hazards of Organic Carbon
Jack Hutchings, PhD, Manager of Konecky Lab
Addressing Harassment, Promoting Inclusion: A Panel Discussion with Campus Leaders
Members from various WashU offices will discuss how their areas address, respond to, and prevent instances of harassment and promote inclusion on campus. They will also share resources and strategies to engage bystanders. After the discussion, questions from the audience will be addressed.
Physics Family Fun Day: Light Physics
WashU Physics Outreach Committee
Reverse Engineering of the Alligator Gar Fish's Boney Scale: The Confluence of Mineralogy-Biology-Engineering
Kenneth Livi, Johns Hopkins University
Searching for the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary in the Central Pacific
Hannah Mark, Fossett Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis
Brown Bag: Data Analysis, Visualization, Management, and Curation
Clara McLeod and Ryan Wallace from the EPS library and Jennifer Moore, Head of Data Services at WashU, will present this brown bag talk.
Brown Bag: Tracing Seafloor Hydrothermal Alteration and Subducted Oceanic Slabs Using K Isotopes
Professor Kun Wang presents a brown bag talk
Geography Awareness Week
WashU Libraries will host free workshops for Geography Awareness Week
More Than One Way to Kill a Spruce Forest: Spatial Fingerprint of Deglacial Temperature Change in Eastern North America
John Williams, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brown Bag: The Science of Brewing
Torin O'Brien, Head Brewer at Old Herald Brewery and Distillery, presents this talk on "The Science of Brewing: The Process and Some Recent Studies."
A Gas from the Past: Holocene Paleo-limnic Eruptions at Lake Kivu?
Melissa Berke, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
EPS Colloquium: A Review of Chang’E Missions
Jun Huang, China University of Geosciences
Brown Bag: The November 11th St. Louis Fireball: Meteorites, Meteowrongs, and Micrometeorites
Ryan Ogliore, Department of Physics, WashU